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Subject: Re: geli not recognizing passphrase on boot (was: geli not prompting
 for password on boot)
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Jost Menke wrote:
> on Sat Apr 8 17:12:56 UTC 2006, Adam Wood <aswood@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On 4/8/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> Please add kern.geom.eli.visible_passphrase=1 to the loader.conf as
>>> well.
>>>       
>
>   
>>> It doesn't. Try to enable visible_passphrase tunable and see if it gets
>>> the passphrase you type.
>>>       
>
>   
>> How weird! It seems to not be detecting keypresses. I had to hit the
>> key several times for it to register. Is there a reason for this? It
>> doesn't do this at any other time, so I don't think it is the
>> keyboard...
>>     
>
> Is there any solution for this yet? I am experiencing similar problems with 6.2 BETA3 in a VMware session with encrypted root fs. When I boot with kbdmux enabled, I cannot enter anything. Turning it off changes the behavior to those "lost keystrokes". Sometimes I have to press the key about 20 times before anything actually happens.
>   

I have had the same problem on my systems (without VMware or any other
kind of emulation). Deactivating the kbdmux in (i think)
/boot/device.hints was the solution to me.

- Veronica